Review of The New World (2005) by Soniah. — 04 Feb 2006

I think that film could have been better made. The whole concept of the movie is very good. It really takes you into the eyes of the explores when they first land in Virginia, and to the eyes of then Native American when they go to England, in scenery sense though.

Some scenes most of the scenes are stretched out too much while being accompanied with evergoing music of Mozart, cresendo's and decrecendo's, which tend work against the scenes than to help them.

This effect makes each stretched out scene anxious and just overdone. And i'm a very patient person. There were a lot of, but I mean a lot of scenes of landscapes and trees. I think that this emphasis on this disregarded other important features of the film.

I would have liked to see the development of John's Smith character. There is a lot of poetry accross the film, from both Pocahontas, and John Smith expressing their thoughts and emotions, but I would have liked to see this in a more active form, including the poetry, but taking it down.

I like Pocahontas character, I think she (the actress) did an awesome job. However, I think that instead of focussing on trees so much, I would have liked her character to have been developed more as well.

I think that I would have liked to see, the psychological struggle between choosing to aid the English, and love John Smith, while at the same time staying loyal to her tribe, which have been and are being slaughtered by the English.

After that I would have liked to see a tad more suffering for John Smith's abandonment. And finally, I know this isn't all, the sense that she is all alone, forsaken, both by her family, and the man she loves, and supposedly loves her.

I would also liked to see more emotion in the native american's part, this is their family that is being slaughtered, but we don't get that. Another thing that bothered me, was that even though i'm not for rape and pillaging, this is what happened, and even though I would not have liked to see this, I would like to have it insinuated in some form, just for authenticity purposes.

At last, but I know is not the only thing, I should have liked to see a more specific indication of the struggle for these explorers to survive in an unknown land, all they show is people walking among hungry and going mad.

I would have liked to see and it would have made it better to see these men try to find food, and unable to. This film made me take a netral position, I had no indication and real sense of the struggle among the Native Americans or the English.

I was looking to choose sides.